Coating for Babybel cheese

Latest answer — August 22, 2025

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Across

  1. 1Places to store shovels and leaf blowers
  2. 5Coating for Babybel cheese
  3. 6"___ vs. Predator" (2004 sci-fi film)
  4. 8Streaming glitch
  5. 9Docking spots
  6. 10Feature of a Southern accent
  7. 14Sweet potato lookalike
  8. 15Top-notch, informally
  9. 17Greenskeeper's roll of grass
  10. 18Campfire remnants

Down

  1. 1Nickname for the Florida Gators football stadium, with "the"
  2. 2"2001: A Space Odyssey" villain
  3. 3Cast out from a country
  4. 4"Uptown Funk" and "Downtown," for two
  5. 7"Can I bend your ___ for a second?"
  6. 10Like an ambitious, competitive personality
  7. 11Simple-to-play card game for two
  8. 12Simple-living sect
  9. 13Shop owner's stock
  10. 16Barkeep on "The Simpsons"

The answer to “Coating for Babybel cheese” in the New York Times Mini crossword is WAX — a 3-letter word. It most recently appeared in the New York Times Mini crossword on August 22, 2025, a Friday puzzle, at 5-Across. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“Coating for Babybel cheese” answer

WAX (3 letters)

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Why the answer is WAX

WAX is the 3-letter solution that fits "Coating for Babybel cheese" in the NYT Mini crossword on August 22, 2025 (5-Across). Use the letter tiles above if you'd rather reveal it one letter at a time.

What does WAX mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of WAX is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

(noun)

  • a sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax
  • used in reference to records

When else has “Coating for Babybel cheese” appeared?

New York Times Mini reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

August 22, 2025 (most recent) → WAX. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the answer to “Coating for Babybel cheese”?

The answer is WAX, a 3-letter word. It most recently appeared in the New York Times Mini crossword on August 22, 2025.

How many letters is the answer to “Coating for Babybel cheese”?

3 letters: WAX.

When did this clue appear?

Most recently in the New York Times Mini crossword on August 22, 2025 (a Friday puzzle), at 5-Across.

Can “Coating for Babybel cheese” have a different answer?

Yes — New York Times Mini sometimes reuses a clue with a different solution to fit the grid. The answers we've recorded for each date it appeared are listed above when available.

Where can I find the rest of this day's NYT Mini answers?

The full grid for August 22, 2025 is on the NYT Mini answers page, with every clue and answer from that puzzle.

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